Handout from May 2015 IALJS panel: "Story Talk, Story Craft: Classroom Challenges of Literary Journalism"

1. IALJS10 Teaching Panel: Analysis of Survey Responses from Literary Journalism Educators
“If you had to pick one text you keep returning to as a teacher of literary journalism, what would it be?”
In Cold Blood (Capote) (5 mentions)
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Kerrane & Yagoda) (4 mentions)
The New Journalism (Wolfe) (3 mentions)
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Kramer & Call) (3 mentions)
Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction (Franklin) (3 mentions)
Fame and Obscurity (Talese) (2 mentions)
Hiroshima (Hersey) (2 mentions)
Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life (Harrington) (2 mentions)
The Literature of Journalism: Text and Context (Berner) (2 mentions)
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Hart) (2 mentions)
The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality (Gutkind)
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
"Bangkok" (Kero)
The Best American Magazine Writing (American Society of Magazine Editors)
"Chapter II" (the Karagatch Road vignette) in In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway)
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell)
Ferdaminne (Vinje)
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (Berger & Mohr)
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Talese)
German Autumn (Dagerman)
The Journalist and the Murderer (Malcolm)
"Justice at Night" (Gellhorn)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee & Evans)
Literary Journalism (Sims)
Literary Journalism: A Reader (Chance & McKeen)
Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example (Sims)
"The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy" (Paterniti)
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Zinsser)
"Strange Rumblings in Atzlan" (Thompson)
Susan Orleans collection
Up in the Old Hotel (Mitchell)
work by Charles Bowden
work by Walt Harrington
You Can't Make This Stuff Up (Gutkind)
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2. Lewis & Hanc, page 2
May 8, 2015
IALJS10 Teaching Panel: Analysis of Survey Responses from Literary Journalism Educators
“Besides that one text, can you recommend two more that you've used successfully in teaching literary journalism?”
Hiroshima (Hersey) (4 mentions)
Literary Journalism (Sims) (4 mentions)
Literary Journalism (Sims & Kramer) (3 mentions)
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Kramer & Call) (3 mentions)
The Best American Magazine Writing (American Society of Magazine Editors) (2 mentions)
Joe Gould's Secret, as a full text and a selection from it: "Professor Sea Gull" (Mitchell) (2 mentions)
The Literature of Journalism: Text and Context (Berner) (2 mentions)
The Art and Craft of Feature Writing (Blundell)
Back to the Congo (Joris)
Bokhandleren i Kabul (Seierstad)
Bowery sketches by Stephen Crane
Congo: The Epic History of a People (van Reybrouck)
"De Tragiek van de Koperdief" ("TheTragedy of the Copper Thief") (van Casteren)
"Death of an Innocent" (Krakauer)
Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater (Sokolove)
Encounters with the Archdruid (John McPhee)
'Er is een Kind Vermoord" (A Child is Murdered) (Luyten)
Falling Man: A Novel (DeLillo)
Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel (Joe Sacco)
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (Berger & Mohr)
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Talese)
The Good Soldiers (Finkel)
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work (Laskas)
"The Holy Grail of the Unconscious" (Corbett)
"How it Feels to Be Forcibly Fed" (Barnes)
I Naomis Hus (1996) (Wera Sæther)
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Menchu)
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction (Gutkind)
The Jollity Building (Liebling)
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved (Thompson)
The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (Meloy)
The Last Cowboy (Kramer)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South (Evans)
Literary Journalists (Sims)

3. Lewis & Hanc, page 3
May 8, 2015
IALJS10 Teaching Panel: Analysis of Survey Responses from Literary Journalism Educators
“Besides that one text, can you recommend two more that you've used successfully in teaching literary journalism?”
"The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy" (Paterniti)
The Lost City of Z (Grann)
Mother Meira finding her children by the Polish writer Woiciech Tochmann
"Mr. Hunter's Grave" (Mitchell)
Mules and Men (Hurston)
My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere (Orlean)
The New Journalism (Wolfe)
The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft (Boynton)
Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists (Harrington & Sager)
On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Zinsser)
Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy (Hansen)
"Pillelu, Pillelu!" (Cahan)
Pol Pot's Smile (Idling)
"Professor Sea Gull" (Joe Gould's Secret) (Mitchell)
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (LeBlanc)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Fadiman)
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Hart)
Strength in What Remains (Kidder)
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Kotlowitz)
"Trina and Trina" (Leblanc)
True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism (Sims)
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America (Horwitz)
Whose Art Is It? (Kramer)
work by Chris De Stoop
work by Gay Talese
work by Hunter S. Thompson
work by Rebecca Solnit
work by Stijn Tormans
Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality (Talese & Lounsberry)
Writing Literary Features (Berner)
You Can't Make This Stuff Up (Gutkind)

4. Lewis & Hanc, page 4
May 8, 2015
IALJS10 Teaching Panel: Analysis of Survey Responses from Literary Journalism Educators
“If you teach a course where literary journalism is the focus of the course, please list the name of the course(s).”
Literary Journalism (8 mentions) Special Reports The Literature of Literary Journalism
The Literature of Journalism (3 mentions) American Literary Journalism Covering Revolutions
Advanced Magazine Writing (2 mentions) Fashion and Celebrity Introduction to Literary Reportage
Non-Fiction Narrative Writing (2 mentions) Literarischer Journalismus Literary Feature Writing
Creative Non-Fiction Workshop Literary Journalism across Cultures Literary Journalism of Finance
Journalism as Literature Literary Journalism: History and Theory Literary Journalists
Literary Journalism: History and Concepts Literature and Journalism in America Literature and Social Change
Literary Reportage Magazine Journalism Narrative Journalism
Literature of Journalism Narrative Journalism in Text and Photo Narrative Nonfiction
Narrative Journalism (How To) Non-Fiction Narrative Reportage and Opinion Journalism
New Journalism and the Sixties Ordinary Extraordinary 40 Towns The Feature Article
Non-Fiction Prose Structure—How Good Books are Built Travel Literature
“If you teach a course where literary journalism is its own unit among other units in the course, please list
the name of the course(s).”
Advanced Feature Writing (2 mentions) Advanced Reporting Advanced Writing
Feature Writing (2 mentions) Enterprise Reporting Feature Reporting Workshop
Depth Reporting and Writing Foundations of Journalism Intermediate Writing
Introduction to Journalism Journalism & Democracy Journalism & Ideas
Journalism and Journalists in France Journalism History Kritische Tekstanalyse ('Critical Text Analysis')
Magazine Editing Magazine Writing Many Modes of Narration
Narrative Techniques in Journalistic Writing Opinion Journalism Opinion Writing
Raising the Dead Rhetorical Writing Storying Place in the Nuclear Southwest
The Investigative Memoir Topics in American Literature